Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Jaydip Biniwale and Abhishek Doshi of Downtown Club. Downtown Club is an e-commerce platform for discovery of D2C brands. The Downtown app enables users to browse new brands and products every day through a personalized virtual shopping experience.

They dive deep into Abhishek and Jaydip's journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them to building Downtown Club.

Sections:

(1:11) Born and raised   
(5:58) Rejecting IIT and dropping out of Purdue
(8:33) The first startup bug
(12:29) The CEPT experience and finding each other
(20:13) Flirting with entrepreneurship
(23:11) The decision to finally start up
(28:11) Pandemics, plans and pivots
(31:39) 3 steps to epiphany
(35:04) The story behind the name "Downtown"
(37:02) From idea to initialization - Downtown’s early days
(40:05) Building Downtown’s MVP
(48:29) Conscious culture building
(50:53) Abhishek’s & Jaydip’s sleepless nights
(52:44) A day at Downtown
(54:52) Downtown - then vs now